UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2017

Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Explosion, or craft, that looked like torches. ((NUFORC Note: Possible nighttime parachute jump?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-09-16
Where
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.761, -111.891 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-salt-lake-city-ut-2017-1b7a07
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Salt Lake City, UT reports filed in September 2017.

In context

  • Salt Lake City, UT shows up 235 times across the archive.
  • 72 reports came from Utah in 2017.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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